This was the first college class where I have had to do a group assignment. It was fun see each person’s options and ideas. Our first task was to create a wiki and a Google doc. I only started using Google documents, wikis, and blogs when I started at Lamar. I have found it to be a fun way to do work. I attached our Google doc to our wiki and it was not a hard task. It only took me a few minutes. I have learned that wikis are good for collaborative writing and group assignments (Solomon, G & Schrum, L, 2007). I believe this is true because it was easy for us to type in our information and everyone immediately had access to it. I also found email to be a good form of communication. Posted our information on our wiki and then sent the link to our instructor. We then learned to use lessonbuilder.cast.org to create an e-book. Through this website I learned about UDL and how it recognizes that every student learns in a different way (cast.org, 2009). I had previously learned about different ways of learning in my teacher certification. According to some of the reading one way to reach students is to individualize your lessons (Rose, D. & Meyer, A, 2002). However, I never knew that there was an internet site where you could make your own e-book. I found this to be very interesting. Since I am not a working teacher I also learned from making our lesson plans how to use the state standards. I learned where to find these standards and also went through them to determine which ones would work well with my assignment.
References
Cast.org (2009). Cast UDL book builder. Center for Applied Special Technology. Retrieved March 31, 2012 from http://www.cast.org/udl/.
Rose, D & Meyer, A. (2002). Teaching every student in the digital age. Universal design for learning. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and curriculum Development. Retrieved March 31, 2012 from http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/chapter6.cfm
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